Vopadeva: 4 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vopadeva (वोपदेव).—[masculine] [Name] of an author.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Vopadeva (वोपदेव) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—son of Keśava, pupil of Dhaneśa. He was Pandit to Mahādeva, king of Devagiri. He is quoted in the Mādhavīyadhātuvṛtti: Kavikalpadruma. Kāvyakāmadhenu. Triṃśacchlokī Āśaucasaṃgraha. Dhātukośa and Dhātupāṭha are no doubt the two first named works. Paramahaṃsapriyā. Paraśurāmapratāpaṭīkā (Śrāddhakāṇḍa). Bhāgavatapurāṇadvādaśaskandhānukrama. Mahimnaḥstavaṭīkā. Muktāphala. Mugdhabodha. Rāmavyākaraṇa, perhaps the same work as the last. Śataślokī and—[commentary] Śataślokīcandrakalā. Śārṅgadharasaṃhitāgūḍhārthadīpikā med. Siddhamantraprakāśa med., sometimes attributed to his father. Harilīlā. Hṛdayadīpanighaṇṭu med. Some anonymous treatise of his on dharma is several times quoted in the Nirṇayasindhu, in Ācāramayūkha, and once in Śrāddhamayūkha.

2) Vopadeva (वोपदेव):—another name of Gopāla (Rasamañjarīvikāśa), son of Nṛsiṃha.

3) Vopadeva (वोपदेव):—Śīghrabodhavyākaraṇa (?).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vopadeva (वोपदेव):—[=vopa-deva] m. Name of the author of the Mugdha-bodha grammar (also of the Kavi-kalpadruma and various other works, including, according to some, the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa; he was a son of Keśava and pupil of Dhaneśvara, and is said to have flourished about the latter half of the thirteenth century at the court of Hemādri, king of Deva-giri, now Dowlatābād).

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